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From: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:33:30 +0530
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Subject: Re: real/float example for testlibpq3
To: Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>
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Hi Mark,
Fetching a "real" type field from libpq doesn't look that intuitive.
So this example is super helpful. Thanks.

I am wondering whether we should provide PQgetfloatvalue() which does
what that example shows but transparently. It will return a float
value of the given field instead of char *. That will standardize the
way to fetch real typed values in libpq. That leads to the next
question. Do we need to introduce different PQget*value() for standard
C/SQL data types.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 3:12 AM Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Would adding additional examples to testlibpq3.c on handling more data
> types be helpful?  I've attached a patch adding how to handle a REAL to
> current example.
>
> Regards,
> Mark